• Catch 7: Sinning Jenny's Forsaken Wimple
• Catch 7: A Submerged Rector (Companion, Persuasive +7, Watchful +6)
• Catch 6: A Cured Jillyfleur Cloak (Clothing, Dangerous +6, Watchful +4, Persuasive -1)
• Catch 5: Wrecking Boots (Boots, Persuasive +6, Dangerous +4, Shadowy -1)
• Catch 4: A Faceted Decanter of Drownie Effluvia (Weapon, Shadowy +5, Watchful +3, Dangerous -1)
• Catch 3 (assumed): Scrimshander Carving Knife (Weapon, Watchful +3, Persuasive +2, Dangerous -1)

• Catch 7: Pre-Emptive Guinea-Pig (Weapon, Dangerous +7, Watchful +6)
• Catch 6: 'For Your Own Good' Compass (Weapon, Watchful +6, Shadowy +4, Dangerous -1)
• Catch 5: Bloodstained Eolith (Weapon, Watchful +5, Dangerous +4, Persuasive -1)
• Catch 4: Consignment of Scintillack Snuff (Weapon, Dangerous +5, Persuasive +3, Shadowy -1)
• Catch 3: Mutersalt (Weapon, Dangerous +3, Shadowy +2, Watchful -1)

Anne Auclair wrote:

I think there is only one wimple. Two distinct versions of it exist only for game purposes, namely to avoid a second meeting.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/22/2016

But, firstly to my knowledge this sort of mechanic has never been used before and, secondly, there is a very easy conventional method to achieve this - just lock the Return Wimple branch if you have Encounter with the Mayor.

I think I am missing something... When you recover the wimple the second time you cannot return it the second time (as far as I can see). But the *first* time you return it, the branch requires you only to have a wimple (it doesn't lock when you have Encountered the Mayor quality). So based on that, you should be able to return the wimple again..

I've also finally managed to acquire all of the unique items, including the wimple a 2nd time -- it definitely took a lot of dedication, but that's what makes the various festivals so wonderful -- the endless waiting for actions to refresh, to dip back into the frenzy and the fun... my question for everyone is whether, once you have acquired everything, you head back to london, or if you continue to play around at the festival. I feel like i've done what i wanted, and since this is not as social an event as many others, i'm tempted to head homeward - but it seems such a shame to leave the festival so soon after it started!

Is there a list of all the special items you can acquire?

I went through once and got the Jillyfleur cloak, and noticed that you can pay fate for previous years' items. Didn't actually click on that button though. Do they have all new items each year of the festival?

It also makes me wonder if mayoral election companions from previous years will be purchasable with fate.

edited by Optimatum on 8/15/2016

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Has it been established whether the Strange Catch quality is ALWAYS lowered upon entering Wreckers' Cove?

...The simplest explanations are often the best when dealing with human characters: Jenny honestly reminisced, Miss Plenty wants fish, you find the washed up wimple at Wreckers Cove after giving Miss Plenty a fish, Jenny seizes upon your find to improvise some drama, cranky Sister Lydia tosses it back, you find it again. Simple, straightforward...

I just want to say that getting the wimple twice and the Submerged Rector once is turning out to be a lot easier than getting that Scrimshander Carving Knife once. That's what I get for having very high quirks, I suppose. I may have to see about tanking one of my quirks, since no matter what I do, I can't seem to end up with Running Battle below 5.

Has it been established whether the Strange Catch quality is ALWAYS lowered upon entering Wreckers' Cove?

going back to London from mutton island takes 10 actions, fishing takes 10 actions and you dont need to spend anything, you can fish and then use the catch to reduce your wounds by alot on the mutton island, this is most likely more efficent.

Are you checking the "picking through wreckers cove" value? Because that is the ultimate decider of which item you get. Generally from my experience, your picking through cove value never gets lower than your strange catch value minus 2, so if you get 9 strange catch then you should be guaranteed to get a 7 (and hence a wimple). Check your head gear and make sure you don't already actually have a wimple.

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I'm running fairly quickly out of cartography items. Is turning in strange catches the only way to grind them during the festival?

What is the result of getting the wimple again? Does it allow you to replay the meeting with the Mayor? Does it open up a continuation of the storyline? Is it just an item now>

Don't worry, it's a joke. "Lithp" is "Lisp" when said with a lisp, because you insert a lot of S'es into your speech.

@ responses to my question.

Thanks for the responses. Hmm... I'm not that thrilled with burning Partial Maps for lucky draws. I'm thinking of sitting this Feast through unless they also provide a decent way of recouping those items.

I gained pretty much everything I wanted from the last fruits of the zee festival, is there anything new to get this year? Any worthwhile new content?

There are a couple of options relating to our Mayor Sinning Jenny.

All the old prizes were apparently removed (you can sill get them with Fate) and replaced with new items.

With a catch level of 7 or more (confirmed with level 8) there are two new items to find:

• A Submerged Rector (Companion, Persuasive +7, Watchful +6)
• Sinning Jenny's Forsaken Wimple. I expect this to have some follow up in London, since to get it you need to have no 'An Encounter with the Mayor Of London'

Others have reported on this thread and on the wiki about other new items:

• A cured jillyfleur cloak. Catch level 6. Stats not mentioned.
• Wrecking Boots. Requires catch level 5. Boots, Persuasive +6, Dangerous +4, Shadowy -1
• A Faceted Decanter of Drownie Effluvia. Catch level 4. Weapon, Shadowy +5, Watchful +3, Dangerous -1

Wilhelm Klossner wrote:

I have recently (a day ago) created a new character after my old one decided to venture North. I have no items, no stats and no quirks. Is it still possible for me to get special items out of the Festival? I would love to participate but struggle to evaluate how feasible that is.

You need 10 rostygold to participate. An it'll be harder without quirks, but at the end there is a quirk increasing choice. I'd say you could get a couple items

I am wondering, did anyone noticed difference in gained CP when passing quirk checks and using Zee Stories/Partial Maps? Is it better to use exclusively one of those ways?

So, I had a catch and had unsuccessfully cycled the airs a few times before bed trying to find the Hooded Lady to cash it in. This morning, I've already used 38 actions and am still holding this stupid fish.

These mechanics are pathetic.

rahv7 wrote:

You have a 15% chance to meet the Hooded Lady, so statistically speaking, roughly every 7 tries. I know the feeling though. I've also invested about 20 actions recently only to give my Catch to the Chef because my Wounds were dangerously high.

I prefer to hang onto my Catch and deal with Wounds by eating Rubbery Lumps. Yes, it uses a lot of actions, but at least it lets you control how high your Wounds get more easily.

Catherine Raymond wrote:

rahv7 wrote:

You have a 15% chance to meet the Hooded Lady, so statistically speaking, roughly every 7 tries. I know the feeling though. I've also invested about 20 actions recently only to give my Catch to the Chef because my Wounds were dangerously high.

I prefer to hang onto my Catch and deal with Wounds by eating Rubbery Lumps. Yes, it uses a lot of actions, but at least it lets you control how high your Wounds get more easily.

Is that more efficient than just heading back to London periodically to rest and/or quaff healing tonics? A round trip is 10 extra actions, but at least you can reduce menaces fairly quickly. And it also lets you draw cards while you wait for actions to refresh, so you get menace reducers as well as any valuable cards worth playing despite the festival.

I've never had a problem with the RNG at the festival. I mean yeah, it took me all week last year to finish my collection of unique items, and I've only gotten two of them so far this year, but fishing is all about patience and enjoying the experience. Sit back, enjoy some rubbery lumps, dance with some drownies, throw fish at preachers to avoid being thrown out for insanity, and let what comes come. It would be an awfully boring celebration if you just burned the same hundred actions in the same order as every other player and went home.

(Also, in the past your Picking value has ranged from 1 to the value of your Catch, so if it's only going as low as half your fish number this year, that's awfully generous of them. I definitely turned a level 9 fish into a level 1 reward on multiple occasions).

The RNG can be sharp, but at its most painful it's merely a friendly neighborhood version of the Mr. Enten storyline (rather fitting, given the peculiarities of the local mystery cult).

Tarantula wrote:

New flavor text for the catches.

Huh?

Lizhly wrote:

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I'm running fairly quickly out of cartography items. Is turning in strange catches the only way to grind them during the festival?

Keep in mind you only need to use Map Scraps if you'll fail both Quirk options: they give the same amount of Running Battle.

dov wrote:

With a catch level of 7 or more (confirmed with level 8) there are two new items to find:

• A Submerged Rector (Companion, Persuasive +7, Watchful +6)
• Sinning Jenny's Forsaken Wimple. I expect this to have some follow up in London, since to get it you need to have no 'An Encounter with the Mayor Of London'

Others have reported on this thread and on the wiki about other new items:

• A cured jillyfleur cloak. Catch level 6. Stats not mentioned.
• Wrecking Boots. Requires catch level 5. Boots, Persuasive +6, Dangerous +4, Shadowy -1
• A Faceted Decanter of Drownie Effluvia. Catch level 4. Weapon, Shadowy +5, Watchful +3, Dangerous -1

I had A Strange Catch at 9 and couldn't find the Rector. I also had Strange Catch at 5 and didn't find the Wrecking Boots.

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Are you checking the "picking through wreckers cove" value? Because that is the ultimate decider of which item you get. Generally from my experience, your picking through cove value never gets lower than your strange catch value minus 2, so if you get 9 strange catch then you should be guaranteed to get a 7 (and hence a wimple). Check your head gear and make sure you don't already actually have a wimple.

It's possible, but, well, you can only go so far in assuming that any given character is doing everything they can to deceive you before it starts seeming plausible that cheese is made of spiders, that the Traitor Empress is actually three Rattus Faber in their dad's coat, and that, really, what does "true" mean when discussing a work of fiction, and then Ambition: Enigma starts increasing. Sooner or later, I think we have to take the text at its word, so to speak.

Mechanics aside, would it be out of character for Sinning Jenny and Miriam Plenty to plant multiple false wimples in Wreckers Cove for resourceful festival goers to find? They are show business types after all.

Yeah, I'm getting really frustrated. I've been fishing catches 8-10 and get nothing. I've spent around 30 Partial Maps and I lost count of all the other stuff. I also have burned entire sessions just trying to get the Hooded Lady and get nowhere.

I finally just got a catch 11. But the Lady wouldn't come and all my menaces went out of control. There was no way I was giving up that catch 11 to lower my menaces. My nightmares broke 8 and my wounds just under 8. I finally got the lady, and finally got Cove 7 (my Wimple). But I was immediately banished to The Mirror-Marches where I am stuck now.

Oh, and I dropped from 200 for both Dangerous & Shadowy to 196 as a penalty.

Yes, I'm really frustrated.

Edit: fixed typo, added gripe
edited by squiggle on 8/21/2016

I got 12. It's on my mantelpiece. The description remains the same. There was no mystery here. Only ashes.

I don't know how to get the knive. I got all but the weapon. Three days fishing and nothing...

Is anyone else getting pretty frustrated this year around?

Am I alone in this? :-S

Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:

It's possible, but, well, you can only go so far in assuming that any given character is doing everything they can to deceive you before it starts seeming plausible that cheese is made of spiders, that the Traitor Empress is actually three Rattus Faber in their dad's coat, and that, really, what does "true" mean when discussing a work of fiction, and then Ambition: Enigma starts increasing. Sooner or later, I think we have to take the text at its word, so to speak.

I've seen QUITE A LOT of this ever since the election stuff. It's getting slightly exhausting.

Pnakotic wrote:

But seriously, as much as I enjoy a bit of speculation it has gotten a bit out of hand lately; we should try to keep it this side of the Shadowland BBS

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the forum's election speculation has ever crossed the line into the truly outlandish. It's predominately been focused on the parties and issues involved.

Kate, that's been my situation exactly--with both my main and my alt (though my alt's quirks are much lower, and more variable, on average). Still, my alt has been having a terrible time getting the last Festival item for her collection--the boots.

My nightmares got to high and I went back to my lodgings. How do I get back to the festival?

Just want to confirm; the only way to get items from past festivals (the armoured guinea-pig, for example) is to pay fate for them? No way to catch them this time around?

I think there is only one wimple. Two distinct versions of it exist only for game purposes, namely to avoid a second meeting.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/22/2016

Anne Auclair wrote:

Mechanics aside, would it be out of character for Sinning Jenny and Miriam Plenty to plant multiple false wimples in Wreckers Cove for resourceful festival goers to find? They are show business types after all.

I think it would be very much in character for Miriam Plenty to plant dozens of false but plausible-looking wimples in all kinds of places around Mutton Island. I'm not sure I see Jenny getting mixed up in that type of scam--it's too crude and obvious for her.

I just noticed something... This festival is the only way to get a Strange Catch, and you lose the Strange Catch if you leave. However, there is a Seeking option to use the Strange Catch to get a Starveling Cat in London... Is it possible to do in any way, or an impossible choice?

I'm not sure about it, but maybe getting crazy or dying may help you keep the catch.

It would be something definitely in tune with Seeking.

Someone told me you got a Magnificent Diamond. This is second hand info, however, so someone might want to confirm.

There are a couple of options relating to our Mayor Sinning Jenny.

All the old prizes were apparently removed (you can sill get them with Fate) and replaced with new items.

With a catch level of 7 or more (confirmed with level 8) there are two new items to find:

• A Submerged Rector (Companion, Persuasive +7, Watchful +6)
• Sinning Jenny's Forsaken Wimple. I expect this to have some follow up in London, since to get it you need to have no 'An Encounter with the Mayor Of London'

Others have reported on this thread and on the wiki about other new items:

• A cured jillyfleur cloak. Catch level 6. Stats not mentioned.
• Wrecking Boots. Requires catch level 5. Boots, Persuasive +6, Dangerous +4, Shadowy -1
• A Faceted Decanter of Drownie Effluvia. Catch level 4. Weapon, Shadowy +5, Watchful +3, Dangerous -1

So, anyone else taking the opportunity to grind their quirks?

Vincent Asmund wrote:

What level of SC do I need for Wrecking Boots? It's the only item I have left.

A minimum of 5 Strange Catch and just hope that it doesn't get reduced when you visit the Cove - as that is the Cove value you need for the Boots. Good luck.

When the RNG deigns to smile on you, you'll have the option to trade in the wimple to the Mayor. The Mayor will take you to the lighthouse and discuss how her term in office is going - she's concerned that the Masters are using her efforts for their own ends.

You can either advise her to stay the course, or to oppose the Masters. I didn't notice any qualities changing whichever you choose. When you leave, you're ambused by a reporter. No idea what happens if you sell out or take a bride to stay schtum, but if you keep quiet you get a quality and a Favours in High Places. No unique items.

Not sure whether this is new, but you can get the Wimple a second time now. Not sure whether there's another follow-up either, but the text seemed to suggest you get to keep it this time.
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edited by phryne on 8/16/2016

It's impossible to aim for a particular level of Cove-Picking. The only way is to try and try and try again...

Catherine Raymond wrote:

rahv7 wrote:

... I've also invested about 20 actions recently only to give my Catch to the Chef because my Wounds were dangerously high.

I prefer to hang onto my Catch and deal with Wounds by eating Rubbery Lumps. Yes, it uses a lot of actions, but at least it lets you control how high your Wounds get more easily.

Is that more efficient than just heading back to London periodically to rest and/or quaff healing tonics? A round trip is 10 extra actions, but at least you can reduce menaces fairly quickly. And it also lets you draw cards while you wait for actions to refresh, so you get menace reducers as well as any valuable cards worth playing despite the festival.

Don't quite follow the question, but the only non-repeatable content in the festival is the meeting with the mayor, as far as I'm aware, although you can only pick up items you don't already have. Just get a bother catch and try again.

Corvo wrote:

RandomWalker wrote:

Don't quite follow the question, but the only non-repeatable content in the festival is the meeting with the mayor, as far as I'm aware, although you can only pick up items you don't already have. Just get a bother catch and try again.

Yeah, I jsut got the card to pick up another reward from teh festival. Thansk for the help, sorry for bothering.

You seem to have a lithp.

Is there any way to ensure that you get all the items? I remember last year missing out on an item (A lower level one) because my SC was higher than a certain range.

Question: I got Strange Catch of 8 but when I go to trade it, it went down to 5 and 6. Is that on purpose?

Also if you wish to min-max further, the two best Destinies are Fate-locked (to the tune of 10 Fate)